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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery.
Slavery always has, and always will produce insurrections wherever it exists, because it is a violation of the natural order of things.
Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.
The slave power dares anything, and it can be conquered only by the united masses of the people. From Congress to the people, I appeal.
It is inevitable, that eventually the people will demand absolute security from the state... And absolute security is absolute slavery.
Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again.
From the king To the beggar, by gradation, all are servants; And you must grant, the slavery is less To study to please one, than many.
The slavery of identity comes from our refusal to face ourselves. So we must begin the exploration to self-awareness. Where do we start?
Why is Slavery so much condemn'd and strove against in one Case, and so highly applauded and held so necessary and so sacred in another?
No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.
It is high time that the women of Republican America should know how much the laws that govern them are like the slave laws ofthe South.
If you think your lot in life has been hard read “Up From Slavery” by Booker T. Washington, and you may see how fortunate you have been.
Slavery is theft - theft of a life, theft of work, theft of any property or produce, theft even of the children a slave might have borne.
Slavery is nothing to joke about! And the history of this nation's [the USA's] involvement with slavery is nothing to pass off in a joke.
Culture of dependency leads to a life of slavery, being totally dependent upon government. And government dictates where they go in life.
Had it not been for slavery, the death penalty would have likely been abolished in America. Slavery became a haven for the death penalty.
I can speak of slavery only so far as it came under my own observation - only so far as I have known and experienced it in my own person.
If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.
To believe Christianity stands in opposition to slavery is at best to think anachronistically and at worst to not understand Christianity.
There must be no compromise with slavery - none whatever. Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expedience.
Each of us has been endowed with the perfect power to be free. Slavery is a state of mind that fails to acknowledge the slave's own power.
Shatter the icons of slavery and fear. Replace the leer of the minstrel's burnt-cork face with a proud, serene and classic bronze of Benin.
By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?
The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.
We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.
...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.
America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings.
I'm offended by the is-ought fallacy, which has been used to justify slavery, women not being allowed to vote, children working in factories.
I can't think of the last Asian that I ran into that talked about internment camps. But black people always want to talk to me about slavery.
God knows I detest slavery but it is an existing evil, and we must endure it and give it such protection as is guaranteed by the Constitution.
Should I be worried about being a slave and being returned to slavery? Because certain things happened in the Constitution that had to change.
Slavery is an abomination and must be loudly proclaimed as such, but I own that I nor any other man has any immediate solution to the problem.
Another thing rappers, I admire your rebellious spirit, but materialism is a form of mental slavery. Slow down on the jewelry, pick up a book.
American slavery was not a Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western. It was a holocaust. My ancestors are slaves. Stolen from Africa. I will honor them.
If we were to drive out the English with the weapons with which they enslaved us, our slavery would still be with us even when they have gone.
Daily I expect to be murdered or betrayed or reduced to slavery if the occasion arises. But I fear nothing, because of the promises of heaven.
The mentality which made one section of the Indians look upon another as enemies was suicidal; it could only serve to perpetuate their slavery.
In consigning Elian back to slavery without a hearing, this administration is setting back the cause of freedom -- in this country and in Cuba.
All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.
All forms of involuntary servitude are prohibited, not only slavery but also conscription, forced association, and forced welfare distribution.
If the British public were shown slavery in their own society seen through the eyes of the enslaved, they would get a much better understanding.
There was nothing to aspire to, no one to honor. Sojourner Truth wasn't a big enough role model for me. I couldn't go around abolishing slavery.
When the passage "All men are born free and equal," when that passage was being written were not some of the signers legalised owners of slaves?
Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery. It is a scourge for humanity, and America must project its values and protect vulnerable persons.
Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.
Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity.
Slave rebellions, especially the [1791] Haitian Revolution, had an ongoing effect on the ways in which abolitionists talked about ending slavery.
Ralph Nader has slavery reparations on his platform, which makes me think he's not serious. If he thought he could win he wouldn't even say that.
The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes.